Namaste notes - Fri, Aug 15 2008 9:00:00 PST
Saturday, August 16 — Raksha Bandhan marks the Hindu festival celebrating the filial bond between brothers and sisters. Customs include feeding each other sweets.
Saturday, August 16 — Brother Roger... full story | New deal with doctors looks good for patients - Fri, Aug 15 2008 9:00:00 PST
A new collective bargaining agreement has been signed between the Yukon government and its doctors.
The changes in the deal will benefit patients most, said Yukon Medical Association president Rao Tadepalli. full story | Riverdale residents grill affordable-housing planners - Fri, Aug 15 2008 9:00:00 PST
Yukon Housing Corporation has selected a site in Riverdale for an affordable family housing project.
Now the corporation must get to know the neighbours.
“I’m not opposed to more density in... full story | Young Christians pack the spirit of Luther north - Fri, Aug 15 2008 9:00:00 PST
Thursday afternoon, bus after bus pulled up outside the Canada Games Centre discharging groups of Lutheran youth into the lobby.
All 1,200 of them have come on a modern pilgrimage — a journey to the biannual... full story | Yukon sex offender rearrested - Fri, Aug 15 2008 9:00:00 PST
A convicted sex offender, who went missing from a halfway house five days ago, was arrested today in Vancouver.
In 2001, Marcellus Jacob broke into a woman’s downtown Whitehorse home and viciously raped her at... full story | Express yourself upon yourself - Fri, Aug 15 2008 9:00:00 PST
What do Donkey Kong, Iggy Pop, Extra Old Stock beer and porn star John Holmes have in common?
Besides making for a great Saturday night, you could plaster their images on custom made T-shirts at Thredz. full story | Captain Dick and the gophers - Fri, Aug 15 2008 9:00:00 PST
The golden years of retirement can take many forms.
Freed from the burdens of employment some actively pursue leisure sports such as golf or sailing. Others may spend their pensions travelling the globe — seeing... full story |
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RCMP issues warning about sex offender in Iqaluit - Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:11:12 +0000
“There is a serious risk to the safety of the public.” The RCMP are warning the public that a repeat sex offender has been released from prison and now lives in Iqaluit. | It’s infrastructure crunch time in Iqaluit - Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:11:00 +0000
“It’s not an easy task. People have different opinions,” When City of Iqaluit administrators like John Hussey, the chief administrative officer, and Michele Bertol, the planning director, take a look around town, they see a long list of aging structures that cost more than they're worth to maintain. | Iqaluit This Week - Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:10:56 +0000
Tuesday, Aug. 19, choir, drumming, guitar and fiddle and Wednesday, Aug. 20, throat-singing and drum-dancing. All classes from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Aqsarniit Middle School. Beginners welcome and instruments provided. No registration is required and admissions are free. Donations welcome. | Security tight at Mountie murder hearing in Iqaluit - Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:10:16 +0000
Security was tight outside Courtroom 3 of the Nunavut Justice Centre in Iqaluit as a preliminary hearing began Aug. 11 for the man accused of killing RCMP Cst. Douglas Scott in Kimmirut last November. | Kangiqsujuaq gets first bowhead in a century - Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:10:02 +0000
“We’re back with our ancestors.” KANGIQSUJUAQ - Noah Annahatak thrust a harpoon into a bowhead whale Aug. 10, marking the first bowhead kill on Nunavik's Hudson Strait coast in more than a century. | Students train to become computer repair whizzes - Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:09:47 +0000
In many small northern communities, when your computer breaks down you have to send it south because no one local is qualified to carry out repairs. | Welcome to Kuujjuaq, Quebec’s new hot spot - Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:09:36 +0000
Temperatures in the mid-20s were hot enough to melt lard in Kangisujuaq last week, as the heat closed down stores and offices and sent Nunavimmiut leaping into the water to cool off. | Have a birthday bash with a Belgian - Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:09:25 +0000
If you've always wanted to be on television, you may have a chance - that is, if you were who was born on the right day and year. A Belgian television production company is looking for Nunavummiut, men and women alike, who were born on certain dates. | Around Nunavut - Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:09:15 +0000
Auyuittuq National Park reopened Aug. 8 after flooding and erosion forced the park's closure to visitors. But Parks Canada officials are urging hikers to be extremely careful while travelling in the park. | Picco plays nice to promote green lights - Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:09:05 +0000
“The less electricity we use, the less fuel we burn.” Last year, Energy Minister Ed Picco tried to use a stick to get Nunavummiut to switch from power-hungry incandescent light bulbs to energy efficient compact fluorescents. |
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Western Arctic leader seeks commitment from Harper's latest visit - Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:38:48 EDT
Leaders in the Northwest Territories say they hope Prime Minister Stephen Harper will do more than stage a pre-election photo opportunity when he visits the N.W.T. and the Yukon next week. | Selwyn Resources to begin talks with Yukon First Nation on proposed mine - Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:11:50 EDT
The Liard First Nation has received federal funds to start talks with Selwyn Resources Ltd. towards an agreement that would help the Vancouver-based company develop a lead and zinc mine in eastern Yukon. | Fewer Nunavut youth in custody: StatsCan - Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:45:53 EDT
The number of Nunavut youth serving time in corrections facilities has dropped significantly, according to recent figures from Statistics Canada. | MacKay launches Arctic sovereignty operation Nanook in Iqaluit - Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:27:33 EDT
Defence Minister Peter MacKay travelled to Iqaluit Tuesday to launch Operation Nanook, Canada's annual military operation to exercise Arctic sovereignty and prepare for emergencies in the North. | Scientists study slow march of plants, trees into Canadian Arctic - Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:24:29 EDT
Federal researchers are using satelite photos of a national park in the western Arctic to show how climate change is prompting vegetation from southern Canada to creep into the tundra, possibly threatening the northern ecosystem. | Whitehorse woman in critical condition after being hit by car - Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:07:16 EDT
A Whitehorse woman is fighting for her life in an Edmonton hospital, after she was hit by a car on the Alaska Highway on Monday afternoon. | Fire crews watching blaze near Fort Smith - Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:09:05 EDT
Firefighters in the Northwest Territories are monitoring a forest fire burning 50 kilometres northeast of Fort Smith on Tuesday. | Frustrated environmental groups quit Alberta oilsands body - Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:25:17 EDT
Three environmental groups have walked away in frustration from an advisory body on Alberta's booming oilsands, saying its not effective and the government is not paying any attention. | U.S. pilots attempt cross-Arctic trip by float plane - Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:08:07 EDT
Two pilots from Seattle are attempting to fly their seaplane to the north magnetic pole, the northernmost stop on a 16,000-kilometre circumnavigational flight of northern Canada. |
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